Follow links.
Link a thought to the next one, and the one after that. Linking as you write is how notes turn into knowledge.
The knowledge management system that grows with you.
Start with a folder of markdown notes on your local machine. Deploy a server to sync and access them from any device. Create a space for your team’s shared memory, or even your product’s public documentation. Same tool, same files, fully under your control.
1 · Your private thoughts
Open a folder, start writing. Journal, keep tasks, collect ideas, and link them together as you go. It’s all markdown files on your own computer, and nothing leaves it unless you want it to.
2 · On every device you own
Run a server of your own, or pick a host, and your notes follow you to every device. On your phone, SilverBullet installs straight from the browser as a home screen app. It keeps working offline and catches up when you’re back online.
3 · For your team
Share a space and work on it together in real time: assign tasks with @-mentions, discuss in comments, and see edits appear as they happen. Or keep your docs next to your code in git, and review changes like any other pull request. Same markdown either way.
4 · For the world
Publish a space as a website, read-only, styled your way. SilverBullet’s own documentation is an example of this.
Navigate your way through your knowledge.
Accruing knowledge is one thing, successfully exploring and retrieving it is another.
See what links back.
Every page shows everywhere else it’s mentioned, so connections you made months ago surface on their own.
See the shape of it.
The object graph draws your pages and how they relate, so you can wander through them visually.
Query.
Query your notes like a database: open tasks across every project, everything tagged #decision, the pages you touched this week.
Built to last as long as your knowledge does.
Your files, forever.
Your notes are markdown in an ordinary folder, next to your images and PDFs. Open them in any editor, put them in git, back them up however you like. If SilverBullet disappeared tomorrow, your knowledge wouldn’t.
- JournalFolder
- LibraryFolder
- Bird Log.mdMarkdown
- Herons by the old bridge.jpgJPEG image
- Ideas.mdMarkdown
- Jo Lindqvist.mdMarkdown
- Moving House.mdMarkdown
- Photo Walks.mdMarkdown
- Reading List.mdMarkdown
- Shopping List.mdMarkdown
- Train tickets.pdfPDF document
- index.mdMarkdown
Make it yours.
Start with a great editor and add what you need when you need it: live queries, custom commands, your own styling, libraries others have shared. SilverBullet changes shape with you instead of making you change shape for it.
${query[[from t = index.tasks() where not t.done
order by t.page desc
select templates.taskItem(t)]]}
Open source at the core.
SilverBullet Server and the sb CLI are MIT licensed and developed in the open. Read the code, run it on your own hardware, fork it, and keep it running for as long as you like.
Where do you want your knowledge to live?
On my computer only
Pick SilverBullet Desktop. A native app for macOS, Windows and Linux, with your spaces as folders on your machine. Free for personal use.
Get Desktop →In a git repository
Pick SilverBullet Desktop, and simply open your repo’s docs folder as a space. Your knowledge stays plain markdown next to your code, versioned with git and reviewed in pull requests.
Get Desktop →On a server
Pick SilverBullet Server. Self-host it as a single container, then use it from any browser, including on your phone. Open source and free.
Set up Server →Hosted for me
Let a hosting provider run SilverBullet Server for you. Sign up and start writing in minutes.
Find a host →Desktop syncs with any Server, so you can combine them and switch later. Where your data lives →